Your code is setting the slug of the post to your custom meta string. That work is done on the admin side and so shouldn’t effect your viewers much. WordPress will use that slug more or less directly to construct an url and/or load a page. What you have done is not different from hand-writing … Read more
One solution: Use the Category Pagination Fix plugin Here is the reference: http://www.jonoalderson.com/blog-updates/permalinks-category-pagination/ (lengthy explanation)
Don’t use php header function it will cause problems within wordpress. WordPress has its own function to make redirects Function Reference: wp_redirect($url, $status_code); Try this: <?php $permalink = get_permalink( $id ); wp_redirect($permalink, 301); exit; ?> Updated: I’ve worked out some code for you Place this below code to your functions.php file: function redirector($post_id) { if … Read more
Use the get_user_by and get_term_by functions: // user $user = get_user_by( ‘login’, ‘someuser’ ); if( $user ){ echo get_author_posts_url( $user->ID ); } // tag $term = get_term_by( ‘name’, ‘Sometag’, ‘post_tag’ ); if( $term ){ echo get_term_link( $term ); }
It seems the reason for this is guid tag in RSS, which contains links I have changed If you’ve changed the GUID in the database… From the Codex: When doing the above and changing the URLs directly in the database, you will come across instances of the URL being located in the “guid” column in … Read more
Any WP built-in function? Yes, sanitize_title.
This is not a real problem as wordpress remembers all the addresses the content had during it existence and automatically redirects to the recent one. The code is not 100% fail prof but you will need to work very hard to make it fail. That is the reason you don’t need to update links in … Read more
Under Settings>Permalinks you merely have to select “Post Name” to get the post name in the permalink. If you are getting parse/syntax errors something else is going on and I suggest you revert to the default theme and disable plugins until you determine where the problem is coming from.
Try this plugin: Custom Permalinks In this plugin you can edit permalink structure of page and post.
one possible way: <?php $link_text = sprintf( __( ‘Permanent link to %s’, ‘youthemetextdomain’), get_the_title() ); ?> <h3><a href=”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/128312/<?php the_permalink(); ?>” title=”<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>” ><?php echo $link_text; ?></a></h3> get_the_title() returns the title instead of displaying it. The double-underscore function is how WordPress allows strings to be extracted from a theme or plugin for translation.